Fire-places and Kitchen Utensils. 247 



inwards above, to give a more free passage to the falling 

 ashes. 



The entrance into the fire-place was closed with a 

 sliding brick, and another brick served as a register to 

 the ash-pit door-way; a third served as a damper to the 

 canal that carried off the smoke into the chimney ; and 

 the oven itself was closed with a twelve-inch tile. 



The expense of setting this oven was estimated as 

 follows : 



s. d. 



1 14 bricks, at 3-r. per hundred 34 



3 hods of mortar, at $d. I o 



I twelve-inch tile, at ^d. 04 



Bricklayer's labour I 6 



Total 62 



If to this sum we add the amount of the ironmonger's 

 bill for the oven 36 



The whole expense will turn out 98 



The mass of brick-work in which this oven is set is 

 just 2 feet wide, 19^ inches deep, measured from front 

 to back, and 3 feet 3^ inches high. The chimney fire- 

 place in which it is placed is 3 feet wide, 3 feet 3? inches 

 high, and 20 inches deep. 



If the oven had been set in one corner of this fire- 

 place, instead of occupying the middle of it, near one- 

 quarter of the bricks that were used might have been 

 saved ; but if in building a new chimney a convenient 

 place were chosen and prepared for it, an oven of this 

 kind might be put up at a very small expense indeed, 

 perhaps for 3^. or $s. 6d., which would reduce the cost 

 of the oven when set to about js. or js. 6d. 



Though the bricklayer was above 3 hours putting up 

 this oven, yet, as it was the first he ever set, there is no 

 doubt but that he was considerably longer in doing the 



